Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to Pillow arbitrary code execution vulnerabilitiy.

Summary

Potential Pillow arbitrary code execution vulnerabilitity have been identified that could affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-50447
**DESCRIPTION:**Pillow could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper neutralization of user supplied-input by the PIL.ImageMath.eval function. By sending a specially crafted request using keys that leverage the environment parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/280022 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.8.5 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.8.5 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None